I.to render faint or languid, to tire, weary, fatigue, to deprive of vigor (syn.: fatigo, languefacio; “perh. not ante-Aug.): aliquem,” Cels. 1, 3, 1: “laevam,” Curt. 9, 5, 1: “longior infirmum ne lasset epistola corpus,” Ov. H. 20, 241: “brachia plagis,” Prop. 4 (5), 8, 67. cf.: “lassata gravi ceciderunt brachia massā,” Juv. 6, 421: “visu lassatur inani,” Val. Fl. 1, 707: “oculos,” Stat. Th. 5, 483: “jam vitia primo fervore adulescentiae indomita lassavit,” Sen. Ep. 68, 13; 70, 3; 88, 10; id. Clem. 1, 19, 4; Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36; 30, 16, 53, § 149: “numina,” to weary with petitions, Luc. 5, 695: “Cecropiam Cotytto,” Juv. 2, 92.—Transf.: “sidus Hyperborei Bootae,” i. e. to bear steadfastly, Mart. 4, 3, 5: “lassatum fluctibus aequor,” i. e. become calm, Luc. 5, 703: “ventus lassatur,” id. 9, 453: “lassata triumphis fortuna,” id. 2, 727.—In mal. part., Tib. 1, 9, 55; Juv. 6, 129.
lasso , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. lassus,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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